Which FR5 layer option keeps the case supports above actual cartons?

Packaging has marked the two reinforced bearing strips. Tooling's plan puts both over open space on the turned row. We're looking at a straight-row candidate now.

Our straight rows got packaging acceptance for the specified carton. Still needed the tool route checked. Worth keeping your candidate open without assuming all the other questions disappear.

Ask the packer what that lower-count candidate changes in pallet supply and removal, because those are real jobs even when the layer itself gets simpler.

Show the fingers at their widest on exit, not just their closed carrying position, because a straight row can still trap the open tool

The packer says more exchanges, but no extra sorting. Her time goes into the comparison. Tool designer is drawing the full exit instead of the helpful arrow we currently have.

Does the proposed straight pattern preserve the support through the repeat layers as well as on the pallet base?

Packaging checked the repeated layers with our packed case and accepted that support arrangement at their specified limit. Returned partials are not included in that acceptance.

Who handles those returned partials, Ella, and are they common enough to change your proposed workload?

Dispatch completes them manually today. They're occasional, but real. I've added the recent actual returns to the work comparison rather than rounding them down to none.

Thanks for keeping the real returns. Our estimates got much clearer once we stopped borrowing a clean full-pallet day to represent every order.

Did the complete exit drawing find room for the fingers?

Not on the first straight-row layout. Outer finger clips the pallet edge on withdrawal. They have proposed changing the placement sequence and tool approach, without altering the accepted support pattern.

Have packaging see the intermediate placements in that changed sequence too, since the same final pattern can be built through different temporary support conditions.

Added the intermediate placements to the joint review. No purchase decision from the final picture alone.

And give the packer that changed sequence when checking her exchanges; she should not be timing a version the tool designer has already abandoned.

Done. One candidate and one set of work assumptions circulating now. Support pattern accepted, approach and sequence still being checked. Annoying amount of drawing, but at least the drawings agree about what is missing.